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Singapore faces shrinking population, fertility rate below one pc: Minister

February 29, 2024

Singapore, facing a dwindling population and a manpower shortage, has seen its resident total fertility rate (TFR) drop to an estimated 0.97 per cent in 2023, the first time it has dropped below one per cent in the country’s history. The TFR, which refers to the average number of babies...

‘Pak Prez may face ‘legal consequences’ over refusal to summon new Parliament session’

February 29, 2024

Pakistan President Dr Arif Alvi’s refusal to summon the newly-elected National Assembly for its first session may lead to “legal consequences”, senior leaders of the PML-N and PPP have warned. On Monday, Alvi rejected a move from the caretaker parliamentary affairs ministry to summon the first session of the newly...

EX-PAK PM NAWAZ SHARIF OFFICIALLY NOMINATES YOUNGER BROTHER SHEHBAZ FOR PM’S POST

February 29, 2024

Shehbaz Sharif is set to become cash-strapped Pakistan’s prime minister once again after the parliamentary party of the PML-N party headed by three-time former premier Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday formally nominated his younger brother to head a coalition government and fix the economy. The high-level meeting of the Pakistan Muslim...

British Airways supervisor on the run in India over visa racket: Report

February 28, 2024

British police are working with their Indian counterparts to trace a British Airways supervisor believed to be on the run in India after his role in an alleged GBP 3 million visa scam from over five years came to light, according to a UK media report on Tuesday. ‘The Sun’...

British MP raises transnational repression of Sikhs in UK Parliament

February 28, 2024

British Sikh MP Preet Kaur Gill has raised the issue of transnational repression and agents with links to India targeting members of the Sikh community in the UK during a House of Commons session. Claiming that several British Sikhs had appeared on a “hit list,” the shadow minister for primary...

US PRESIDENT BIDEN EXPRESSES HOPE FOR GAZA CEASE-FIRE NEXT WEEK

February 28, 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday he hopes to see a new Gaza cease-fire by early next week, as delegations from several countries work to negotiate the first halt in fighting since late November. “My national security adviser tells me that we’re close,” Biden told reporters in New York. “We’re...

Co-chair of Nobel-winning rights group in Russia gets jail for criticising war

February 28, 2024

A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a veteran human rights advocate, who spoke out against the war in Ukraine, to two years and six months in prison. Oleg Orlov, 70, was convicted of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army in an article he wrote denouncing the invasion of Ukraine. He has...

Abu Dhabi’s first Hindu stone temple to open for public on March 1

February 28, 2024

The first Hindu stone temple in Abu Dhabi, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this month, will be opened to the public from March 1, according to the temple authorities. The temple has been built by the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) Swaminarayan Sanstha on...

Pak court indicts Imran, his wife in 190 million pounds corruption case

February 28, 2024

An accountability court in Pakistan on Tuesday indicted jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the 190 million pounds Al Qadir corruption case. Judge Nasir Javed Rana conducted the hearing at Rawalpindi’s high-security Adiala jail where the 72-year-old Pakistan-Tehreek-Insaf founder is currently incarcerated in multiple...

Hungary’s parliament clears path for Sweden’s Nato membership

February 27, 2024

Hungarian MPs have ratified Sweden’s bid to join Nato in a long-delayed vote which paves the way for the Nordic nation’s membership. Sweden applied to join in 2022 after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but Hungary had accused it of being hostile. Last week, however, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban...

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